Is This Sacramento Kings Team Deep Enough For A Playoff Run?

Is This Sacramento Kings Team Deep Enough For A Playoff Run?

because it feels like the the excitement about demard Rosen is is going to linger but the initial pop of like holy crap the king’s got demard Rosen is now is now gone and you had reported and there was there was uh rumors at the Kings like oh hey they’re still in on Lorie marinin hey they’re still in on Kyle kosma there’s all this and hey there might be another move coming well it’s now July 15th we’re into summer league and it feels like now hey maybe that additional move is not coming and then I saw that uh that Monty McNair said that this is probably the group that they’re going to go into camp with this is the main core of players are going to go into camp with which means maybe there’s some some moves on the margins but for the most part this is the roster the kings are looking at and I got to tell you man when I when I hear that it’s I don’t want to say it bums me out but it feels like I was I was so certain there was something else coming after the demaro Rosen trade and that was a great addition and I think it it makes the Kings a playoff team yeah I I think it’s it’s a great addition and I and I agree with you it makes him a playoff team and when you compound that with some of the other moves that you know the smaller moves that they’ve made whether it’s Jayla McDaniels or it’s drafting Devin Carter um like all of these things you kind of sit there and go okay you know we can look at last SE season and say they barely missed the playoffs that that they had injuries late in the season and that that played a role in them missing the Playoffs you filled some of that uh issue but that doesn’t change the fact that number one you got smaller at the small forward position yeah um and I don’t know maybe deardo Rosen doesn’t start at the at the the three maybe he starts at the two and you just have like a really compacted backourt um but I’d also like there’s just you’re still missing that the same ingredient that you were like jayen McDaniels is long and athletic but and he was perfectly fine a couple of years ago for Charlotte when he’s on a bad team and had to take on a bigger scoring role and everything else and at that point I would have loved for the Kings to go out and trade for him then and he’s still only 26 years old but we’re we’re realistically talking about a guy who is an upgrade from Kesler Edwards but not a tremendous upgrade from Kesler Edwards and you know same style of player um but same style of players like Glenn Robinson II and so you’re hoping that uh that he can fill in like a back of the rotation guy like a n910 guy but I I wouldn’t put him in the top of my rotation um if I were a team that had like high-end playoff aspirations he’s a guy that can play and he’s an upgrade over what you had last year but he’s not someone to put you over the top and I’m looking at this roster and you know Alex Len has to play it’s not that Alex Lynn can play it’s that at this point Alex Lynn has to play and he’s got to play a lot of games like he can’t he can’t get hurt and and play 47 games or something like he’s going to need to be a player because you don’t have another big man um you hope that Trey lles can play some five but we’ve also heard that Trey LS may end up playing the four and five maybe even starting at the four like there’s a lot of question marks here about how you’re your roster constructing when it comes to that’s still the same issue the length and athleticism that you still don’t have and so I’m intrigued because if this is it like it’s got to work really well like like somehow you like Mike Brown has got to do a really really good job of like blending this thing together very quickly and that’s and that’s where my my hang-up is because the roster feels incomplete and every roster I think if if we went through the NBA and and we could even talk to experts and beat Riders and radio guys and TV guys and other markets and and we can talk to those media members and and I’m sure they’ll tell you yeah the roster is lacking in in a b and c way and we’re going to do the same thing but with with Sacramento it it like I’m they they got better and I’ve said that a bajillion times over the last week they got better but then as we look and and and I and I see that Monty McNair is saying yeah this is this is kind of the group and you know we’re going to be patient we’re looking at at wings and some and some forwards and some bigs but but this is largely the core that we’re going to go into camp with and oh Jaylen McDaniels can be impactful on both ends of the floor it’s like man the most the an optimistic view of the Kings sure you can talk yourself into this is a top three four team in the west like yes if every if everything goes right like you said hey Alex Len plays a bunch and is and is really impactful and Tre finds a roll as a as a small ball five and a backup four and just just really turns it on and his lights out from three and is is pulling down rebounds and doing a great job wow what a player and Kevin herder finds a role there’s there’s all these things that you can talk yourself into but all I keep coming back to and all of that is valid all that’s on the table maybe everything goes right and they have this magical season they win 55 game but everything I come back to is what we talked about all of last season we we we did multiple shows around the idea that every problem the Kings have comes back to their lack of size and their lack of athleticism on the wings and I and I and I know they solved some of those problems with DeMar rosen particularly the the scoring and the shot creation like that they’re not a lot of players that they could have added that would have helped more than demard de rosan is going to in those two departments that is without a doubt but I can’t help but sit here and think man they are really really thin in the front court and on the Wings again and if we’re going to be the mo if we’re going to if we’re going to lay out that optimistic case which I’m which I’m fine with if you want to lay out the optimistic case where this is a 55 win team and they’re really going to take off this year I think at the same time you have to lay out the other case where hey this team is is better but they’re going to run into a lot of the same problems against a lot of the same teams because their roster is thin in a lot of the same area

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